Category Archives: Luke

Everyone knows that dead men can’t be trusted for anything!
Reading:

Luke 24:13-32

Sometimes my trust (or hope or vision or expectation) collapses or dies.

However, I don’t think I’ve ever experienced it to this extent:

“But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done” (Luke 24:21).

Trusted — past tense. Because they trusted no more. Because Jesus had been killed. And everyone knows that dead men can’t be trusted for anything.

But He was dead no more!

He was back after three days…just as He had told them ahead of time.

I’m glad again this morning for the privilege of putting my trust in Jesus, He who is alive forever more.

Even when my other hopes and visions and trusts and expectations collapse and die, my trust in Him is sure.

(And I’m so grateful to have Him near and with me when those other things collapse and die.)

[Jesus himself drew near, and went with them (Luke 24:15)]
from Luke 24:15

A little bit more from Luke 24: It Was Part of Being Christ

Reading:
Luke 24:1-12

When do I need to hope?

When all seems dark and hopeless.

So I need to hope today.

Because I see a lot of darkness in two of the very most important “things” to me.

But how about this verse, huh?

“And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus” (3).

Talk about dark and hopeless!

No doubt these women were still reeling from the events of the weekend.

Now they were on their way to take care of and pay tribute to their fallen Master.

Or to put it another way, they were going to the burial site of their hopes.

But when they got to the tomb, their dead Lord was gone. And with Him, their dead hopes.

See, Mark! There is hope!

This was a very good passage for me this morning. Oh wow!

[Why seek ye the living among the dead? (Luke 24:5)]

from Luke 24:5

A little bit more from Luke 24: What Else Should We Remember?!